One of the foremost moral philosophers in the English-speaking world.

Newsweek

Clearly the work of an exceptionally intelligent student of the field.

D.M. MacKinnon

A remarkable synthesis, it offers a diagnosis of the present state of moral philosophy which expands into a diagnosis of the present state of modern society.

Richard Rorty, review of After Virtue (1981)

Full of original insights ... written in a lively and sometimes pugnatious style.

Anthony Kenny, review of Whose Justice? Whose Rationality? (1988)

Learned and thoughtful.

Claude Rawson, review of Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry